Medford Fired As Costa Rica Manager

Her­nan Medford’s run as Costa Rica manger has ended. Med­ford a near leg­end as a player presided over an aging squad whose poor results obvi­ously did not sit well with the pow­ers that be in Costa Rican foot­ball. Med­ford was a mem­ber of Costa Rica’s 1990 and 2002 World Cup teams and man­aged Saprissa to the 2005 CONCACAF Cham­pi­ons Cup title. Costa Rica has been drawn into the eas­i­est qual­i­fy­ing group in CONCACAF, Group C. Group B fea­tures four of the top six ranked teams cur­rently in the region accord­ing to the FIFA World Rank­ings. Thus Costa Rica is prob­a­bly going find easy pas­sage to the final round of qual­i­fy­ing. How­ever, the pow­ers that be decided that Costa Rica’s strug­gles dic­tated a change immediately.